How the USSR Turned Houses of Worship Into Museums of Atheism ( Atlas Obscura )In the early days of the revolution, there were many militant atheist collectives, like these farmers from the Tver region in Western Russia. Public Domain. By 1987, the Times reported, âSoviet officials have begun to admit that they may be losing the battle against religion.â For decades, Bibles had been ...

05/07/2018 05:40

Dagestani deputy wanted for swindling gets detained in Tver ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )... City Assembly of Dagestanskiye Ogni Rafik Tagirov in Tver, TASS reports citing the press service of the ICR Investigations Directorate in Dagestan. Tagirov, who was charged with large-scale swindling (part 4 of Art. 159 of the Russian Criminal Code), has been federally wanted since November 2017.

05/06/2018 13:40

Weather alert level in Moscow to remain yellow till Monday ( vestnik kavkaza )The yellow level of the weather alert introduced today was extended for tomorrow, the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia reports. In addition, an increased level of weather alert is introduced in almost all the subjects of Central Russia, except for the Tver region. "The rain that starts in Moscow on ...

05/06/2018 13:40

Number of detainees at protest rallies in Russia increases to 1230 people ( 112 International (blog) )The number of detainees at protest rallies âHe is not our Tsarâ in the RussianFederation doubled in two hours. ... in Voronezh - 16, in Barnaul -10, in Vladimir - 10, in Penza - 7, in Blagoveshchensk - 6, in Kurgan - 6, in Tver - 5, in Astrakhan - 3, in Kemerovo - 2, in Yekaterinburg and Tomsk - one person.

05/04/2018 13:25

Moscow's waste wars ( Open Democracy )There are problems with waste recycling in numerous parts of Russia: Bashkiria, the Komi Republic and the Vladivostok, Voronezh, Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Samara, Tver, Chelyabinsk and Yaroslavl regions as well as Tatarstan, Sochi and the Stavropol Krai. But the most burning issue ...

04/23/2018 05:35

One Reported Dead, 25 Injured As Storm Rages Through Moscow ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )Officials reported that train service was disrupted and flights had been canceled due to the weather. Early on April 22, an official with the Emergency Situations Ministry said some 900 towns and cities in the central Russian regions of Vladimir, Ivanovo, Tver, Smolensk, Ryazan, Moscow, and Tula had lost ...

04/22/2018 13:30

'Bad Weather' - Storm Leaves 73000 Without Electricity in Central Russia ( Sputnik International )... where around 73,000 residents live, has been disrupted on the territories of the Vladimir, Ivanovo, Tver, Smolensk, Ryazan, Moscow, and Tula regions," the statement read. Some 5,000 workers and 1,800 pieces of equipment are involved in restoring electricity in the Russian Central Federal District, ...

Experts name Russian cities with surging housing prices ( Construction.RU )However, in St. Petersburg, a significant 3-percent increase was recorded and today secondary housing in Russia's northern capital can be purchased at about 100,000 rubles ($1,700) per square meter. In addition to St. Petersburg, positive dynamics was noted in the cities of Sochi, Tver, Perm, Tomsk, ...

Royal Dutch Shell doubles lubricant sales in Russia in four years ( Reuters )TORZHOK, Russia (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell, which was forced to limit its presence in Russia's upstream sector because of Western sanctions, ... FILE PHOTO: Filled oil drums are seen at Royal Dutch Shell Plc's lubricants blending plant in the town of Torzhok, north-west of Tver, November 7, 2014.

03/07/2018 07:30

ESforce announces partnership with KFC ( Esports Insider )The last season brought together 250,000 participants and visitors, who will be joined this year by thousands more young people from Russia and the CIS region, in cities including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Krasnodar, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Saratov, Surgut, Tver, Tyumen, ...

03/06/2018 15:25

Russia's corruption rate declined, but bribe amounts increase ( vestnik kavkaza )Kostroma, Tver and Kemerovo regions have the most rapid decline in the rate of reported corruption offences. However, the total value of bribes identified in 2017 is almost 7 billion rubles, which is almost three times higher than a year earlier. "Bribe amounts have increased significantly: for example, the ...

03/04/2018 12:50

A green city project in Russia comes alive ( Troy Media )During its development, the project had no parallels in the Russian Federation. However, similar projects have emerged in several Russian cities, including Volgograd and Omsk. Cities of more than one million population include Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan. Smaller cities include Tver, Savansk, Suzdol ...

02/23/2018 13:10

Chechnya confirms over 30 women, children return from Iraq ( TASS )Around 100 women and children who come from Chechnya, Dagestan, the Khanty-Mansiysk Region, Tver Region and other Russian regions, as well as from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, were evacuated to Russia in the past several months. This matter is handled by a working groups led by Sabsabi.